Connecting Amiga to LCD monitor

[Harrison]

I've been looking for a way to connect my Amigas to an LCD monitor and be able to display both the higher VGA/Productivity modes as well as the lower resolution 15Hz TV modes commonly used for games.

The traditional solution is the multisync monitor which can handle both higher and lower resolution frequencies. I have a Microvitec one of these but I really want to get rid of all of my CRT monitors as they take up so much space, and instead just be able to hook the Amigas up to one of my LCD monitors, or LCD TVs.

The expensive solution to this problem is an Amiga flicker fixer / Scan Doubler. But these are expensive! The cheapest I've seen one is £50 and that was a rare one off occasion. Normally these go for over £80. And the disadvantage of this is that an internal Amiga one would be restricted to that single unit, so would be no good to utilise for hooking up many systems.

Zetr0 has been promoting another cheaper alternative lately which takes the form of an external Up Scaling unit, where you feed it some source video signals and it will up scale it and output to a VGA destination (LCD monitor).

Zetr0's post on AmiBay regarding this is as so:

for those that are considering almost anything to allow you Amiga to be hooked up to PC monitor there is another option to buying a new LCD TV / Graphics Card or expensive Scan Doubler / Flicker Fixer

let me introduce this Up Scaling Unit for around £34 (ebay buy it now auction)

[amibay does not endorse this auction its just my personal opinion]

Now this is the bigger brother to the one i have and infact its awesome! I have used this on both my 19" CRT and 42" plasma in very large screen modes.

The device scales all the images to a set resolution, for instance, should the device be set to display 1024x768 it will scale and Flicker Fix (de-interlace) any screen up or down.

for instance, mine device will do 1280x960 and will scale any screen to it, including super hires interlace... without flicker... looks REALLY nice on my 42" plasma (i must take some pics of this)

The unit has many features including multiple inputs like 100 channel RF and SVideo, it also has a PIP (picture in picture)

the only points of concern are

the VGA in wont up scale / sync a 15khz signal source
the Composite input is a little washed but nothing compared to regular composite input on my TV
the (without adapter or a bit of hackery) no other way than using the composite input from the Amiga.

Anyway, I personally swear by the one i have, it really is awesome, so much so i sold both my internal SD/FF devices, but a word to mention is that your own experience may well vary, especially if you have an NTSC based Amiga.

again... these are just my personal thoughts not that of AmiBay

I did a bit more digging around regarding this unit and it is made by http://www.10mooons.net and the actual unit and other external units can be found at http://www.10moons.net/Product.asp?CID=101

10moons HDTV Ultra